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Encounter the Mysteries of Byzantium |
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Architecture as Icon: Perception and Representation of Architecture in Byzantine Art Exhibition Opening Lecture and Reception
Opening this Saturday, March 6, the Princeton University Art Museum is proud to present the major international loan exhibition Architecture as Icon: Perception and Representation of Architecture in Byzantine Art. The culmination of many years of research by guest curator Slobodan Ćurčić, professor of art and archaeology at Princeton University, this groundbreaking exhibition explores the visual splendor, rich subtleties, and spirituality of Byzantine art and argues for a new way of understanding icons through its representation of space in a pre-Renaissance world view. Architecture as Icon will be on view through June 6.
Join us at 5 p.m. in McCosh 10 for an opening lecture given by Professor Ćurčić.
A reception will follow in the Museum. |
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 Reopening of the Galleries of Medieval, Byzantine, and Islamic Art
For the first time in five years, visitors to the Art Museum are now able to experience medieval artwork once again on display in the oldest surviving part of the Museum, in a newly refurbished space featuring stained-glass windows, hand-plastered walls, and Italian tile floors. New emphasis is placed on Byzantine and Islamic art, building connections across cultures, while new interpretative materials preview fresh approaches to the presentation of the collections and offer hints of what's to come in future reinstallations of the Museum's wide-ranging collections. |
 Night at the Museum
March 11, 7 p.m.
McCormick 106, Princeton University
Join us in a riotous screening of Night at the Museum at the Princeton University Art Museum! While we can't promise our mummy will come alive, we will be serving sandwiches and drinks at 7 p.m., with the movie beginning promptly at 7:30 p.m. After the film, join us for dessert in the galleries and spend your own night (well, at least until 10 p.m.) in the Museum. Visitors are free to drop in for all or any part of the evening. The evening is cosponsored by the Graduate School.
Also, save the date for our next Late Thursday, an evening of jazz with Patty Cronheim on March 18. |
 The Artist as Image
Exploring the representation of artistic identity in modern European and American art, The Artist as Image engages with the myth of the stereotypical presentation of artists as rebellious, temperamental, and uniquely privileged social beings of independence and genius. Drawing heavily from the Museum's extensive collection of prints and drawings, this exhibition features works by Andy Warhol, Edgar Degas, Marc Chagall, Edvard Munch, Francisco Goya, and Paul Cézanne, and is curated by Bridget Alsdorf, Princeton University assistant professor of art and archaeology. |
 Labyrinth Books presents
Reality Hunger: A Manifesto
Monday, March 8, 5:30 p.m.
122 Nassau Street, Princeton
In a society dominated by reality television, YouTube, and Facebook, Reality Hunger: A Manifesto is a landmark call for new art forms to match the complexities of the twenty-first century. Questioning the bending of genres and the lure and blur of the real, this work reframes how individuals think about "truthiness," literary license, quotation, and appropriation. Join with David Shields, the book's author, and Peter Brooks, literary critic and lecturer in comparative literature at Princeton University, for a discussion of Reality Hunger's radical aspirations. |
Image credits, top to bottom:
Princeton University Art Museum
Photo: Bruce M. White
Kivotion (Reliquary)
Transylvanian workshop; 1685
Hammered silver, chiseled, hatched, and gilded; polychrome enamel
h. 28 cm., w. 16 cm., l. 24 cm.
National Museum of Art of Romania, Bucharest
Photo courtesy of Muzeul National de Arta al României
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes
Self-portrait, 1799
Etching and aquatint, also drypoint
31.8 x 22.1 cm.
Laura P. Hall Memorial Collection
[x1946-239]
Egyptian, New Kingdom (early 18th Dynasty)
Fragmentary lid from the coffin of Wadj-shemsi-su
Wood, painted plaster, limestone, obsidian, and bronze
h. 61.0 cm., w. 39.5 cm., d. 20.5 cm.
Museum purchase, Fowler McCormick, Class of 1921, Fund
[1998-37] (Photo: Bruce M. White)
Reproduction of these images is prohibited by copyright laws and international conventions without the express written permission from the copyright holder. © 2010 Princeton University Art Museum. All rights reserved.
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